DDP CABLE TO LINCOLN SENIOR REP

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02012206
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2022
• Case Number: F-2019-01230
• Publication Date: June 19, 1954

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REFS A. TEGU 650 (IN 19801)
Bo LINC 1061 (IN 19831)
1. REGRET THAT WE CANNOT AT THIS TIME AUTHORIZE THE =REX FORMS
OF AIR TO GROUND ACTION REQUESTED BY REF A AND RECOMMENDED BY REF B.
THIS MATTER HAS BEEN RECONSIDERED IN DETAIL AS OF THIS MORNING WITH
ASCHAM AND ORDWAY FULL PARTICIPATION, AND FOLLOWING IS GIST OF REASONIM
AS WELL AS STATEMENT OF CERTAIN CONDITIONS UNDER WUp AiHIS DECISION
MIGHT BE RELAXED OR MODIFIED.
20 THE USE OF AIR TO GROUND ACTION AGAINST WSIMRNT MILITARY PERSONNEL
AND/OR MILITARY VEHICLES WOULD IN OUR JUDGMENT HAVE EFFECT OF ENGAGING
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APART FROM THE EXTREMELY DAMAGING EFFECT WHICH SUCH ACTION WOULD HAVE
UPON WORLD INCLUDING US DOMESTIC PUBLIC OPINION AND THE Cal FIRMA TION
WHICH IT WOULD GIVE TO. MAIN TORTPT.T.G LINES, VIZ "BOMBING" AND "INVASION" .
3o HENCE MESS AND UNTIL IT BECOMES CONSIDERABLY MORE APPARENT
THAN IT NOW IS AS TO MAT THE POSITION OF WSBURNT ARMY WILL BE AND WHETHER
OR NOT THERE IS ANT LIKELIHOOD OF ITS SHIFTING OVER TO CALLIGERIS SIDE,
THESE MEASURES OF ATTAat MUST BE AVOIDED.
14o WE ARE PARTICUIARLY ANXIOUS TO MAKE IT CLEAR TO LINC THAT THIS IS
NOT AN ARBITRARY OR nmAL JUDOMENT QN THE PART OF HQS NOR IS IT ANY EVIDENCE
OF CAUTIOUS OR NEGATIVE ATTITUDE HERE, WE ARE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE
OPEN MINDED WITH REGARD TO THIS MATTER AND WILL ECK BE RECEPTIVE TO RENEWALS
OF RECOMENDA TICKS FROM THE FIELD AND LINC AFTER ENOUGH TIME HAS PASSED
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5. WE REPEAT THAT NEITHER YOU NOR FIELD SHOULD GAIN IMPRESSION
THAT HQS IS OTHERWISE THAN IN FULL AND COMPLETE SUPPORT OF THIS OPERATION
AND ENTIRELY PREPARE) TO BIKE AND/OR AUTHORIZE ANY ACTIONS NECESSARY TO
THE SUCCESS OF THE VENTURE AND WHICH APPEAR TO HE REASONABLY CALCUIATED
TO ACHIEVE THAT END.
6. RECOMMEND THAT IN YOUR INSTRUCTION TO ME FIELD YOU REFLECT
THE SENSE AND FLAVOR. OF THE FOREGOING.
FRANK G. WISHER
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